Memories Don't Leave by Ashleigh Anpilova (PG)

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Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: Leroy Jethro Gibbs/Donald 'Ducky' Mallard. Abigail Scuito/Timothy McGee
Author on LJ: nakeisha
Author website: Partners Forever

Why this must be read:

First of all, nakeisha is a very talented writer and actually the 'mother' of the Gibbs/Ducky fandom. She writes amazing NCIS stories, and it's hard to choose just one fic to rec. I might rec another one of hers!

Secondly, nakeisha likes happy endings. So even though this fic holds a Major Character Death, it still has a happy ending.

When I first read this fic, it blew me away. I recommend tissues when you read this fic.



The vast majority of Ducky's good memories from the last forty years featured, in some way or other, Jethro. As did some of his bad ones.

But he would not give up the bad ones. He could not. Because in doing so he would be giving up part of Jethro, and he was not ready to do that. He never would be ready to do that.

For good or for bad, Jethro was his life and he would always be so.

He remembered the good times, the happy times. Their love, friendship, affection, pureness, closeness, unity, togetherness; the way that together they were stronger than they were apart. He remembered their lovemaking, both the physical and the emotional, the way they made love whenever they were together, wherever they were, whomever they were with.

He remembered the four women Jethro had chosen to marry; remembered them all with a degree of sorrow and regret. He remembered the women his lover had dallied with, toyed with, slept with, the women for whom hadn't cared, not really, not in the way he had cared for Ducky.



Memories don't leave